That was an interesting aspect: to go to war with the Church to fight for the very thing that the Church was meant to give to people.

Climate change is the greatest threat to our existence in our short history on this planet. Nobody's going to buy their way out of its effects.

Nothing anyone says in a bar is true.

It's easy to do nothing, but your heart breaks a little more every time you do.

It is a fact that our fresh water is becoming more scarce and that the new ways we are getting energy in America - fracking, mountaintop removal, cyclic steam extraction, deep-sea drilling - all pollute water, pollute the air, and pollute our soil and food.

There are wonderful low-interest loans you can take out to own your own solar and cut your energy bills down drastically. You can retrofit your home to become more energy efficient with on-bill financing, where the upgrades you make pay for themselves with the energy savings you generate. Ten years ago, there were only a few electric vehicles on the market, and today there are many, many more coming, and with each year the cost of them comes down.

Some of my favorite scenes aren't in the movie. Because you, at some point, realize that your responsibility as director is purely to the story. It's not to your pleasure.